Synergic Earth Network

Daniel Quinn Contrary to popular opinion, Charles Darwin did not originate the idea of evolution. By the middle of the 19th century, the mere fact of evolution had been around […]

Stephen Thaler The popular notion of a world brain is essentially that of an extensive on-line library that is accessible via the latest intelligent agents (i.e., search engines, spiders, intelligent […]

Raymond Kurzweil The gambler had not expected to be here. But on reflection, he thought he had shown some kindness in his time. And this place was even more beautiful […]

Timothy Wilken Lewis Thomas in his book The Youngest Science, comments on the Gaia hypothesis– that the Earth is itself a living organism. “The earth displays so many instances of […]

The following excerpt is from a book published in 1995, I found it in the archives of Jay Hanson’s website. Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich IT ALL SEEMS to be happening […]

The following article was originally published in 1994 by The Atlantic Monthly. It begins with a description of the chaos that was then wreaking havoc on the people of  the West African country […]

I introduced the concept of Singularity at Future Positive with an essay by Vernor Vinge. This morning I repost another essay on the topic by Ray Kurzweil from the EDGE website. […]

Don Steehler introduced us to the writings of Robin Fox in early May. Dr. Fox is Professor of Social Theory at Rutgers University, and the author of many books on […]

Industrial civilization, as we know it, cannot exist without petroleum. We humans are facing an extinction level crisis. Any careful examination of the writings and papers of the world’s leading energy scientists will […]

Timothy Wilken As I have explained elsewhere, Progress + warfare = human extinction.  We are Time-binders and the mark of human power is everywhere. When knowledge is incorporated into matter-energy, […]